Dolphin House is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1974. Commercial. 1 related planning application.
Dolphin House
- WRENN ID
- white-bastion-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1974
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- Dolphin House, 7, East Street, Ware, SG12 9HJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 359 142
- Coordinates
- 51.81079, -0.02999
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dolphin House, formerly known as The Dolphin Inn, is a building located on East Street in Ware. It dates back to the 17th century, with a refronting from the 19th century and rebuilding that occurred in the 1980s. The structure is timber-framed, featuring a front made of yellow brick that has been whitewashed, and a west elevation that is cement rendered and gabled. The roof is old and tiled, with two gabled dormers.
The building has two storeys and attics, with three 19th-century sash windows that have glazing bars set in reveals beneath stucco lintels on the first floor, and four sash windows on the ground floor. The central entrance is framed by a pilaster surround, with carved console brackets that support a modern tiled gabled doorhead. There is a two-storey outshoot, with a whitewashed brick ground floor and a first floor that features modern pargeting, topped with an old tiled roof that has an oversailing ridge line with a gablet.
Local climate
Dolphin House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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